No, my male lobster hasn’t died, but you could be easily mistaken!
Blue Lobster shell, after my male blue lobster has moulted!
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No-one at home!
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Banish those old suckers to the bin!
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Old suckers banished to the bin, now I’ve replaced them with MagClips
This shows a single MagClips holding an Eheim 2260 External inlet pipe which is 25mm in diameter. Considering the pressure and weight, and stress forces on the MagClips, you can see how powerful the magnets are in the MagClips.
exploded view of above, you can see the pipework – no camera tricks here! The MagClips is at the bottom of the inlet pipe near the inlet strainer.
Not an exciting photograph, but shows the MagClips in postion outside the tank. Here a single MagClips is used to hold an Eheim 2260 16mm spraybar in place. This has previosuly failed with suckers emptying 170l of water on the fish house floor!
I’ve replaced the standard Algarde suction clip, that always fail with a MagClips, to hold this BioFoam 200 Sponge Filter in place.
Border Almost finished
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Here are the latest pictures of the new garden border in the front garden, now fully planted. I just need to spread some more bark/mulch around the plants.
The lounge is almost complete, blind fitted to rear window, and in discussion with local design company to fit and forge custom steel curtain rail pole and curtains for bay window.
Under Wraps
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Under wraps soak testing in the garden are the final three fish tanks for the fish house, three 250l (approx) 48x18x18 inch 10mm glass fish tanks on a very heavy cast iron stand. These will be used to primarily grow on young fish in the fish house. I wanted to soak test the tanks were watertight before moving and filling in the fish house, but I must get on and move them in the fish house before the temperature drops below zero, and the frost comes. They are wrapped because I wanted to keep the worst of the weather off them before moving into the fish house.
Three (3) 48x18x18 inch tanks, 10mm glass.
Breeding pair of Cichlasoma nicaraguensis
Friday, September 21st, 2007These photographs were taken on a Compact digital camera, I think they could be better! So here some more photos:-
Nicaragua Cichlid aka Cichlasoma nicaraguensis
Friday, September 21st, 2007I’ve kept these Cichlids twenty years ago, and I’ve been trying to find a pair since, these cichlids have spectacular colours, especially when breeding. I’ve not seen them in the shops, and in the late 80s, was lucky to have three females and one male – long since gone.
I was lucky to find, that a local cichlid breeder, was giving up a very young pair. I put them in a quarantine tank, with a pair of Geophagus proximus, I like to quarantine all new arrivals into the fish house, for four weeks before moving them into breeding tanks. I picked these up on the 9th September, and I noticed the Geos were being bashed to hell, only to notice in a plant pot, fry a few days off from free swimming.
The unusual thing about the Nicaragua Cichlid Cichlasoma nicaraguensis is that the eggs they lay, are not adhesive, and roll-around the floor. I assume so they can move them from nest to nest, unlike most cichlids, that use a surface to spawn on, and their eggs are adhesive.
Female Cichlasoma nicaraguensis with fry.
Female Cichlasoma nicaraguensis with fry.
Male Cichlasoma nicaraguensis with fry.
Male and Female Cichlasoma nicaraguensis with fry.
Whoops – and the LifeGard FB900 doesn’t need fluidzing anymore!
Thursday, September 6th, 2007As previously hinted in a recent posting, I’ve been having difficulties fludizing my LifeGard FB900, the instructions state that a 600lph powerhead should be ample to do this, but I’ve found the back-pressure caused by the sand in the filter affects the powerheads performance, and its not up to the job, I’ve tried a Hagen 301, Maxijet 600, and a Juwel 1000lph powerhead to no avail.
I’ve emailed Pentair in the US, and wait a response, I think I’m going to have to use an Eheim pond pump, but before I had a chance to do this, I left the LifeGard FB900 in my porch, rather than leaving outside, I didn’t want anyone to steal or frost to damage it.
and then my partner knocked it over this morning and smashed it, it had media and water in it, as she was trying to grab the kittens!
I think you’ve got to laugh sometimes, although, I was not too happy this morn!
So I’m trying to obtain another one, which is proving difficult at present!
UPDATE I managed to obtain another, I almost had two! One direct from German Aquatic distributor, and then another new one appeared on eBay, a tenner cheaper!
A New Garden Border continued … (again!)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Lindsey’s says this is much better! Don’t you think! Umm..!
Needs double digging and soil improver adding, and the planting and mulching.
A New Garden Border continued … (again!)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Lindsey didn’t like the shape of the border! So out with the spade, fork and edging tool again.
Ground has been marked out and cut with edging tool.
Grass sods removed and bagged, to take down the local tip, the last time I did this in two car runs, I almost snapped the back axel on the car! Doesn’t seem alot of grass removed but each bag weighs approx 50kg! We will see if the car still works afterwards this week, and Lindsey wonders why the car, makes new noises, with 164,000 miles on the clock, and used as a tractor! I don’t think you can make out my the stainless steel edger (which is bent!) and new Stainless Steel fork, with a 10 year guarantee – nice! Well it’s nice to have, good tools!
Balloon Ride Anyone!
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Glad it didn’t hit the house. Landed in the fields at the front of the house.
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